Masechta Sanhedrin. With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

(Lublin / Cracow

1559?)

RARE. The first leaf of this tractate is unusually foliated, with Folio 1, rather than the standard Folio 2 as established by Bomberg. The rounded fonts used for the headings are similar to tractates published in Lublin, 1559-1568 and Lublin/ Cracow 1646-48. Rabbinowitz (Ma'amar al Hadpasath HaTalmud pp. 60-67) was unable to examine all these tractates and did not see Sanhedrin, indeed he was uncertain it was ever published. However, Tuvia Preschel in his article "Rabbi Shalom Schachna of Lublin: Notes on the Talmud" in Aresheth, vol. VI, pp.191-93 cites Nechemia Brull in Jahrbuch fuer Judische Geschichte, 1879, chap. IV, p. 175 that Solomon Luria complained about the printer in Lublin whose production of Sanhedrin used an inferior text. Thus, it is evident that Sanhedrin was indeed published in Lublin in the late 16th century and was critically examined by Luria, although bibliographers have not seen a copy to date.